To what extent do policies contribute to self-employment?
Baker, Mark.
To what extent do policies contribute to self-employment? [electronic resource] / Mark Baker ... [et al] - Paris : OECD Publishing, 2018. - 31 p. - OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.1512 18151973 ; . - OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.1512. .
Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by age, skill and gender. The generosity of unemployment benefits, and to a lesser extent, spending on active labour market policies appear to be robust determinants of the long-term share of self-employed in European countries. No significant relation is found between the stringency of employment protection and aggregate self-employment. However, there are significant, and oppositely signed, impacts on high- and low-skilled self-employed separately. Both the tax wedge and the minimum wage appear to be positively related to the share of self-employed in the long term, but the relation holds for some categories of workers only.
Economics
To what extent do policies contribute to self-employment? [electronic resource] / Mark Baker ... [et al] - Paris : OECD Publishing, 2018. - 31 p. - OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.1512 18151973 ; . - OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.1512. .
Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by age, skill and gender. The generosity of unemployment benefits, and to a lesser extent, spending on active labour market policies appear to be robust determinants of the long-term share of self-employed in European countries. No significant relation is found between the stringency of employment protection and aggregate self-employment. However, there are significant, and oppositely signed, impacts on high- and low-skilled self-employed separately. Both the tax wedge and the minimum wage appear to be positively related to the share of self-employed in the long term, but the relation holds for some categories of workers only.
Economics